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The 25 Most Stylish Films of All Time

When it comes down to it, it's the big screen where fashions are immortalized. Not the runway, not the street. It's Marcello Mastroianni in that impeccable black suit in 8 1/2. It's Richard Roundtree rocking head-to-toe leather in Shaft. As the following proves, it's a collection of images that will never go out of style

Kubrick's vicious futuristic masterpiece influenced a generation of filmmakers, punk rockers, and designers. But actor Malcolm McDowell couldn't predict that pulling on his cricket whites—and slapping the naughty-bits protector over his pants as a joke—would have the impact it did. According to McDowell, the "gang" outfits—which included U.S. Marine boots that Kubrick had shipped to the UK from Washington, D.C. —helped shape an aspiring young clothingmaker's first collection. "I met Jean Paul Gaultier at a film festival," McDowell recalls. "And he said, 'Thank you very much, because that film changed my whole design.' "